Employees of fashion mogul and accused sex trafficker Peter Nygard allegedly destroyed evidence on their computers and “cleaned up” records on the same day the FBI raided his New York office and California home, his accusers charge in a new court filing.
Lawyers for Nygard’s alleged victims, who have accused the 78-year-old Canadian businessman of a “decades-long sex-trafficking scheme,” said in court papers they were tipped off by former employees that company executives ordered the destruction of evidence.
The scrubbing occurred at Nygard offices in Winnipeg, Canada, and the Bahamas, according to the court filing.
“Nygard executives ordered employees to destroy computer files and ‘clean up’ records,” lawyers for the mogul’s accusers wrote.
“Upon receiving this information, Plaintiffs immediately sent Defendants’ counsel a preservation letter,” they added.
In response to the letter, Nygard’s attorneys wrote the allegation is “devoid of any factual support for your assertions,” according to an email filed in the case.
“The allegations of document destruction are categorically denied,” Ken Frydman, the spokesperson for Peter Nygard, said Tuesday.
In February, the FBI and investigators from the Southern District of New York raided Nygard’s Times Square offices and his Los Angeles home while investigating claims Nygard plied underage girls with booze at sex parties at his Bahamas mansion.
The raid came on the heels of a federal lawsuit that claimed Nygard regularly hosted sex-fueled soirées known as “pamper parties” at his ritzy mansion in exclusive Lyford Cay in the Bahamas with underage girls.